Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.